Duckling Diaries: the Life and Times of a Welshie Trio

[Fire Ant Farm]

Same thing here.

(Although we have established that your "city" is smaller than some high schools here...)

 

[BantyChooks]

(Although we have established that your "city" is smaller than some high schools here...)

I mean in the big city. There are no places to see people (other than the post office and library) in my town, at all. I do all my shopping at a town at least as big as your high school. I still hate it, and want to move even farther out in the sticks.

ETA: Wellll, people can be pretty rude in the BIG big city. But I never go there.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I mean in the big city. There are no places to see people (other than the post office and library) in my town, at all. I do all my shopping at a place at least as big as your high school.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I'm heading to bed - it's been nice chatting, see you guys tomorrow!

 

[BantyChooks]

Night. Was nice to wake this place up for a bit.

 

[BantyChooks]

My favourite humour books are from the parenting section. I like to laugh at how they claim their method will make perfectly behaved kids.

 

[duluthralphie]

My local library is junk. Books are average at best and they have these irritating cards that won't stay in their folders that you have to hand write the date borrowed on. Too much hassle for someone that regularly takes home 40+ books per week. I've gotten used to the snazzy new tech stuff in the other libraries, and miss not having a list of books I've taken out... They're so easy to lose.

Your lucky, really, I think scrolls are what most libraries in the VWN have.

I like audiobooks when I travel or am doing work in the shop. I never read or listen to a book a second time, what's the point? Once I learn it I do not need to learn it again.....

That does not mean I never look at a book a second time but that is a quick skim t refresh my brain.

About Lunch Ladies,,, I use to be on a school board. I was the treasurer...Which means the Unions hated me... The "kitchen manager" was one of my best friends. In addition to still being friends with her, she knew where all the waste and fraud was hidden in the school.... .We had a Superintendent that would just "go along to get along" before I was elected to the board.

Our taxes were going through the roof. I ran on fiscal responsibility. The superintendent resigned the day after I was elected.... It was a district in up heavel. Bless the kitchen manager for being an honest trustworthy soul!

NOW back to books.. Who does not like history books? I find it fascinating! The intrigue and dealings that went into governments. The incest and affairs are amazing because of how they shaped our civilization. I also enjoy pre-history type fiction, if it is written well and not too over the top on liberal environmental crap meant to make us look bad today and feel guilty for using a fridge.

I would refer you to my earlier post. I love fiction. But I have issues with not putting it down that interfere with showing up to work and making a living. My compromise with my obsessive self is to read non-fiction (easier to put down and digest in smaller bites) while in normal working mode, and fiction is the special treat I get on vacation when it doesn't matter if I stay up reading until 7am...

A good book will rob you of a nights sleep every time!


I like good sci-fi.. It has to be realistic and well written. I use to read the crap sci-fi, actually any sci-fi when I was a kid...


I have found though, I do not have much time for reading with my flock of birds.

My favourite humour books are from the parenting section. I like to laugh at how they claim their method will make perfectly behaved kids.

I know, dumb right, that's what drugs are for.....


BTW I had to laugh when I think it was @shawluvsbirds said she was from a small town of 900...

When I grew up the town my mailing address is at was 205... The township I actually lived in was way smaller...

 

[BantyChooks]

Your lucky, really, I think scrolls are what most libraries in the VWN have.

I like good sci-fi.. It has to be realistic and well written. I use to read the crap sci-fi, actually any sci-fi when I was a kid...

BTW I had to laugh when I think it was @shawluvsbirds said she was from a small town of 900...

Yeah, they're rather dry, so I don't read them much... Some rot about how government worked in 192 BC... The spelling in there is horrible, they must not have had good schools back then.

My favourites also have a comic aspect to them. I don't like sad books, they're depressing... I don't need more depressing things around...

I don't consider 900 small, at all. That's why I have to laugh when someone calls my town small.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Having just discovered in my middle age that my taste buds now actually like gin, I am having a very nice gin and tonic, since I am taking tomorrow and the next day off of work. (I have also found a recipe for a virgin G&T that I'm totally trying out, since when it's hot, I'm totally now addicted to the taste of the G&T, but on practical terms would like a virgin version.)

I'm now heading out to go watch chicken TV. BBL.

i have liked gin for a long time, i used to work on a horse farm that the owner only drank wine and gin

I didn't have TV as a kid. Instead, I wasted my time by reading every book I could get my hands on.

sounds perfect!

That's exactly what I did. (But Mr. Rogers was still my friend. ) My mother was a newly minted elementary school teacher - I was her guinea pig. I learned to read at about 2-1/2, no joke.

I was reading by about three, so I can believe that.

I've been considering trying to find it. I'm currently still working thru the books in the newest library, though, so it's not like I'm short on stuff to read.
I go to a new library every year or so, makes sure the kiddos and I always have stuff to read.

one of you want to teach my daughter to read?

I use the blue shade on my tablet so it doesn't hurt my eyes

what is that?

I love reading, but (true confessions time), I'm a little obsessive about it. Like I read and read and read and read, and suddenly it's time to go to work and I didn't sleep.... It's not healthy, so mostly I do nonfiction (a little easier to put down), and I do fiction when I'm on vacation.

I have been dying to read Enslaved by Ducks, haven't pulled the trigger yet.


I have books across multiple platforms. In my experience, the only electronic reading that doesn't hurt my eyes is on a Kindle because it does the best job of mimicking real paper/print (I have a Paperwhite from a good number of years ago now). The bonus is that our public library lends Kindle books.

But in the end, I prefer a physical book. Just wired that way, I guess - when you learn to adore it at such a young age, kinda hard to break. The Kindle is useful for traveling, but (although it probably doesn't make financial sense), I'll have both Kindle and physical versions of a book (esp big fat heavy ones).

i have tons of books and even more on my kindle, i converted one of my spare bedrooms into a library
i love hunkering down with a glass of wine and reading

but my husband hates books, when he is falling asleep watching tv i sometimes try to read, it is the only time that he will try to start a conversation, he will even put his hand over my page or close my book
i think its because he is not very good at reading

Its just a feature that blocks the blue bright light on your device kinda turns everything an amber color so it reduces eye strain and prevents the effect of the blue light from keeping you awake at night

interesting, how do you do this??

Since we are confessing . . . I work at a school too. I am a . . . wait for it. . . . lunch lady I know sad right.

thats awesome!! i loved my lunch ladies!! one of them now works (manages) the subway down the road and she is still awesome!

Agree.

I was a lonely bullied kid who should have been about two grades above where I was. My lunch lady was my best friend for at least two years. I think lunch ladies/cafeteria worker folks were my favorite folks from elementary school.

agreed!!

It does matter ! Thank you. That almost made me cry. I have been doing this for 12 years and have had a heart for so many who come and go and sometimes kids will tell us stuff they wouldn't tell their teachers or parents and it can be heart breaking. But I have to think that if I am the one person who will stop to listen then I must take time to be that person. I hope I make a difference!

see!! thats it right there!! food-a meal - is the best way to get words flowing you are one of the best people in that school and every word you say matters to those young children!

I searched - There's already a sort of "what are you reading" thread - rather than duplicate, I'm going to read back on it and then join in (probably not tonight though). If it turns out sucking we can then make our own...

The BYC Book Club

LOL let us know how it is

 

[Debs Flock]

I searched - There's already a sort of "what are you reading" thread - rather than duplicate, I'm going to read back on it and then join in (probably not tonight though). If it turns out sucking we can then make our own...

The BYC Book Club

I've been on that thread from the beginning. The OP is trying to organize it so everyone is reading the same book. It hasn't been very active. The first & only book they read was...drat, forgot the title. It was by Charles Dickens.

I'd love to have a thread that just talks about what everyone is reading or has read and strongly recommends. I used to be a voracious reader. I wouldn't even pick up a book if it didn't have at least 400 pages. Then my mom got sick & passed. I stopped reading completely then and can't seem to get back to it. I'm hoping a thread would help.